Seven Plays by Women: Female Voices Fighting Lives

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An anthology of plays by new women writers in the theatre with essays on theatre.
Introduction by Cheryl Robson Essays:1. Looking Through, Looking Beyond by Sian Evans 2. Sofia Kalinska and the Demonic Woman by Betty Kaplan 3. The Next Stage by Diane Speakman 4. The Salon at Paines Plough by Anna Furse and April de Angelis 5. Speaking in Tongues but in whose language? by Nina Rapi 6. Director Training for women by Anna Birch 7. The Status of women in Theatre by Caroline Gardiner
The Plays: FAIL/SAFE by Ayshe Raif '...a most disturbing lament for the way that some family ties become chains from which there will never be escape...' The Guardian
THE TAKING OF LIBERTY by Cheryl Robson ’...the French Revolution: a women's protest...escalates into savage retribution.’ What’s On
CRUX by APRIL DE ANGELIS Four women who follow their own doctrine of pleasure and hedonism in opposition to the stifling dictates of the Church.
ITHAKA by Nina Rapi ‘Theatrically inventive, often surreal, witty and funny... sensitive charting of a woman’s quest for love and freedom.’ Bush Theatre
COCHON FLAMBÉ by Eva Lewin Explores the sexual politics of waitressing in a comic, one-woman play.
CUT IT OUT by Jan Ruppe A sharp blend of humour and pathos, tells the story of Laura, a self-lacerator.
FORCED OUT by Jean Abbott A lesbian teacher's confrontation with her community's prejudices, unleashed by a newspaper's gay witch hunt.